Jesna Jabour

Jesna Jabour was an Algerian FLN militant during the Algerian War.

Biography
Jesna Jabour was born in Algiers, French North Africa to a Sunni Muslim Berber family. Jabour decided to join the FLN during the Algerian independence struggle in 1956, and on 20 July 1956 he took part in the assassination of a French policeman at an outdoor cafe. Jabour passed through a police barricade in the sealed-off Arab quarter of Algiers, as he did not have a weapon; a woman managed to smuggle a pistol through, as the French soldiers knew better than to touch Muslim women. Jabour was given the gun by the woman as they embraced, and Jabour put the gun over the woman's left shoulder as the two hugged. Jabour shot the policeman once in the back, killing him, and he hid the gun and fled, feigning innocence.